Timothé R. Huot

Expertise

Business, Commercial and Corporate Law

• Corporate Reorganization
• Cross-Border Transactions
• Employee Incentive Plans
• Mergers and Acquisitions

Intellectual Property

• Commercial Contracts Related to Intellectual Property

Litigation

• Tax Litigation

Tax Law

• Canadian Taxation
• Domestic and International Taxation
• R&D Taxation
• Tax Litigation
• Taxation of Financial Products
• Trusts

Strategic Teams

• Business and Technology
• Commercial Litigation
• Domestic and International Taxation
• Life Sciences
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Wealth Protection

Professional background

Following his legal studies, Timothé Huot became first an associate and then a partner for 18 years in a national law firm. He joined BCF in 2006.

Mr. Huot specializes in tax and has been involved in all the principal aspects of tax law. He has pleaded before the courts in tax litigation matters and in pension surplus reversion cases.

In 1991, Mr. Huot was involved in the public financing of scientific research and development through tax incentives. He has remained very active in this area and he is currently an officer and director of several private companies promoting commercial research in public institutions in Quebec and Ontario.

In 2000 and 2001, Mr. Huot was retained as an expert in Canadian tax law in a major arbitration case of the London Metal Exchange in London, England.

From 2000 to 2004, Mr. Huot was special counsel to a private Saudi venture capital firm and, in this capacity, he was active in private financing in the Middle East and in several member countries of the European Community.

Involvement

• Université de Sherbrooke, Faculty of Law, Sessional lecturer in tax law, Summer 2011 and Winter 2012.

• Université de Sherbrooke, Faculty of Law, Lecturer in tax law, winter 2008.

• McGill University, Faculty of Law, Sessional lecturer in taxation, Winter and Fall, 2000

• Université du Québec à Montréal, Lecturer in taxation, Faculté de sciences administratives, 1985 – 1990.

Conferences

• "Les principales incidences fiscales des contrats commerciaux", Canadian Institute, April 28, 2010.

• "Un survol des principales règles fiscales applicables aux régimes de pension agréés", Canadian Institute, April 22, 2009.

• "Jurisprudence récente, Journées d’études fiscales", Canadian Tax Foundation, June 22, 2008.

• "R & D Tax Credits for International Biotech Joint Ventures," Calgliari, Sardinia, Italy, July 2004.

• "Leverage your Research Dollar : Québec’s Generous Tax Incentives", Copenhagen, Denmark and Stockholm, Sweden, May 2003.

• "Subsidies and Tax Incentives for the Technology Industry", Gerald S. Goldberg Seminars, October 2000.

• "La recherche scientifique en milieu universitaire," Association de planification fiscale et financière, September 2001.

• "Considérations fiscales de l’acquisition d’un immeuble," Association de planification fiscale et financière, September 1989.

• "Impôt sur la distribution des surplus : implications pour le payeur," Association de planification fiscale et financière, October 1988.

• "Le fractionnement du revenu et les règles d’attribution," Canadian Tax Foundation, June 1987.

• "Aspects fiscaux du financement immobilier," National Banking Law Review, October 1987.

• "Certaines incidences fiscales de la commercialisation des innovations scientifiques et technologiques par une université," Conférence des recteurs et des principaux des universités du Québec, October 1986.

• "The Tax Aspects of Acquiring Computer Software," The Center for Professional Education, May 1985.